“You gotta remember, establishment, it’s just a
name for evil. The monster doesn’t care whether
it kills all the students or whether there’s a
revolution. It’s not thinking logically, it’s out of
control”. – John Lennon (1969)

Woman is the nigger of the world, yes she is
If you don’t believe me take a look to the one
you’re with
Woman is the slave to the slaves
Ah yeah, better scream about it.

ong before Bette Midler was roundly
condemned for tweeting “Women, are the
n-word of the world”, John Lennon – never
one to pull his punches – proclaimed in
song “Woman Is the Nigger of the World”.
Unlike Midler and the rest of the politically
correct world, which refuses to say, let alone
print, the word “nigger”, lest they be accused of
racism, Lennon didn’t just use the “n” word – he
wrote a whole song about it and included it on his
1972 album Some Time In New York City.
Titled Woman Is the Nigger of the World, the
song – with lyrics inspired and co-written by
Yoko Ono – has Lennon’s brand of truth-telling
stamped all over it:

Blacklisted by most radio stations, the controversial song was widely condemned as racist and
anti-woman.
The song was neither.
Initially released as a single in April 1972, a
month after Congress voted to add the Equal
Rights Amendment to the US Constitution, Woman Is the Nigger of the World was Lennon’s way of
calling out the hypocrisy of a world that claimed
to recognise women as equals while treating
them as less worthy of equal rights.
That hypocrisy is still playing out today.
As African-American civil rights activist
Congressman Ron Dellums noted in his defence
of the song, “If you define ‘nigger’ as someone
whose lifestyle is defined by others, whose opportunities are defined by others, whose role in
society is defined by others, the good news is that
you don’t have to be black to be a nigger in this
society. Most of the people in America are niggers”.
All these years later, not much has changed.
Women are still treated like the niggers of the
world: used, abused and conveniently discarded.
And in the eyes of the American police state,
most of the citizenry – black, white, brown
and every shade in between – are still treated

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Woman is the nigger of the world
Yes she is, think about it
Woman is the nigger of the world
Think about it, do something about it
We make her paint her face and dance
If she won’t be a slave, we say that she don’t
love us
If she’s real, we say she’s trying to be a man
While putting her down we pretend that she is
above us